Chapter 1

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ILLUSTRATIONS

The Funnel of Death _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Futen, God of the Winds 14 There, Before the Flood, Stood Anton's House 30 The Edge of a Tornado's Whirl 38 In the Path of the Lightning 46 In the Path of the Tornado 46 Facing a Climb on Snow-Shoes 56 Twenty-Five-Foot Drift a Mile Long 56 Forest Ranger in Idaho 56 Observer Among the Quaking Aspens 56 No Peak Too Lofty for a Weather Station 68 Wall and Upright Sun-Dials 86 The First Line of Defence Against the Tempest 98 Solar Halo Seen in the United States 110 Solar Halo Seen in Russia 110 The Dust that Makes Red Sunsets 122 An Army Destroyed by Weather 138 Types of Upper Clouds 152 Types of Lower Clouds 152 Types of Rain Clouds 152 Kite-Flying--The New Way 162 Kite-Flying--The Old Way 162 The Explorer of the Upper Air 172 Snow-Flakes from the Upper Regions of the Air 186 Snow-Flakes from the Middle Regions of the Air 186 Snow-Flakes from the Lower Regions of the Air 186 Ringing the Frost Alarm 192 Fighting Frost in an Orchard--Night 206 Fighting Frost in an Orchard--Dawn 206 Bucking a Snow-Drift 212 Clear the Way! 212 Measuring the Blizzard's Rage 224 Signals on Delaware Breakwater 236 Signal Tower for Storm Warnings 236 Thermometers and Rain-Gauge 246 Pencil Drawings of Tornado in Dakota 256 True Tornado Forming in Advance of a Dust Whirl 268 Tornado Dropping Towards Ground 268 Tornado Wrecking a Farm 276 Tornado Whirling Sidewise 276 Galveston Causeway Before and After the Hurricane 286 Shot from the Gun of a Hurricane 296 Scale of Winds, Illustrated by Clipper Ships 304 Branch Lightning and Multiple Flash 314 Eiffel Tower Struck by Lightning 320 Lightning Flash Striking Building 320 Mules Carried in the Air Three Miles from Their Stable 328 Grand Piano Picked Up by a Tornado and Dropped in a 328 Cow-Pasture

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